Enver Pasha (ĕnvĕr` päshä`), 1881–1922, Turkish general and political leader. He took a prominent part in the Young Turk revolution of 1908, which reestablished the liberal constitution of 1876. By a coup in 1913, Enver Pasha became the virtual dictator. He fought in the Turko-Italian War (1911–12) in Libya Libya (lĭb`ēə), officially Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahirya [state of the masses], republic (2005 est. pop.
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Enver Pasha

(born Nov. 22, 1881, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire—died Aug. 4, 1922, Baldzhuan, Turkistan) Soldier and politician in the Ottoman Empire. He was one of the Young Turks who deposed the Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II in 1908. He later served as governor of Banghazi, Libya (1912), chief of staff of the Ottoman army in the Second Balkan War (1913), and minister of war during World War I (1914–18). A rival of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the postwar period, he unsuccessfully sought Soviet help to overthrow him (1920). The Soviets permitted him to help organize the Turkic and Muslim Central Asian republics, but he joined Basmachi rebels against the Soviet Union and was killed fighting the Red Army.

Enver Pasha

1881--1922, Turkish soldier and leader of the Young Turks: minister of war (1914--18)